Mauni Amavasya 2027: Date, Shanishchari and Magha

Mauni Amavasya, the new moon of the month of Magha in north Indian calendars, falls on Saturday, 6 February 2027. The conjunction itself comes on the same calendar day as the sunrise that names the date, late that evening, so the tithi fills the day from before dawn to after dark. Because the day is a Saturday, the same panchangs give it a second name as well.

One Saturday, Dawn to Dusk (मौनी अमावस्या)

The site’s DE421 lunation table places the new moon, where the Amavasya ends, at 21:26 on Saturday 6 February 2027. The tithi starts at 19:05 on Friday 5 February 2027, an instant that no generated table carries. It is worked out by the site’s lunar code, which reproduces the DE421 tables’ tithi instants to within 1 minute on the 86 it can be tested against, and which also lands on the lunation row for this tithi’s end.

In New Delhi, sunset on the 5th is at 18:03, 62 minutes before the Amavasya begins, so the whole of that Friday, sunrise to sunset, is Krishna Chaturdashi. Saturday’s sunrise at 07:06 is Amavasya, and so is its sunset at 18:04; the tithi does not give way until well into the evening. By Sunday’s sunrise it is Shukla Pratipada. One sunrise, one full day of light, no second candidate.

The Thin Margin Is in the West, and It Decides Nothing

The eastern sunrises that make some Amavasyas hard to place are nowhere near either end here. Kolkata’s sunrise on the 6th, at 06:13 by the site’s sunrise code, comes more than 11 hours after the tithi began, and across all 38 of the site’s panchang cities the last sunset of that day still precedes the new moon by more than 2 hours (Mumbai, at 18:34).

The close edge is the evening before. Sunset on the 5th comes later in the west, and in Goa it is at 18:34, only 31 minutes ahead of the computed start. That clears the half-hour the site requires before it takes a side on a computed instant, but not by much. It also changes nothing about the date: the sunrise rule looks at the morning, and every listed city has Chaturdashi on the morning of the 5th and Amavasya on the morning of the 6th.

A Saturday Amavasya: Shanishchari

In the scheme of weekday lords, Saturday is the day of Saturn, Shani in Hindi, and north Indian calendars mark an Amavasya that holds a Saturday sunrise as Shanishchari Amavasya, after Shani; many simply print Shani Amavasya. The 2027 Mauni Amavasya carries that label as well. It records which weekday the tithi met, read like the date from the sunrise, and the site reports it without attaching any result to it.

Silence and the Bath at the Sangam

The name comes from mauna, silence. North Indian custom keeps the day with a vow of silence, for the whole day or for part of it, and with a ritual bath in a river; at Prayagraj the custom centres on the Sangam, the meeting of the Ganga and the Yamuna, where the month of Magha is kept as a season of bathing. These are reported here as the practice of those who keep them. The Magh Mela at Prayagraj runs to a schedule published by the authorities who organise it; this page prints no Mela dates and no figures for it. The only date it gives for the bath is the Amavasya itself, as the panchang computes it.

The Sun in Capricorn, and Out of Kharmas

The ingress table has the Sun entering sidereal Capricorn at 21:05 on 14 January 2027 and leaving for Aquarius at 10:04 on 13 February 2027, so the conjunction falls in Capricorn. The lunation table puts the Moon in Dhanishta at that moment, a nakshatra that runs across two signs (Capricorn 23°20′ – Aquarius 6°40′); this new moon is in its Capricorn part. At Saturday’s sunrise the daily table still has the Moon in Shravana, and by the next sunrise in Dhanishta. The tithi sets the day; these nakshatra readings are context, and the date does not depend on them.

The Sun’s move into Capricorn is also what closes the Dhanu Kharmas, which the site’s table runs to 14 January 2027. So where the previous new moon, Paush Amavasya on 7 January, falls inside Kharmas, this one falls clear of it, with the Meena Kharmas not due until 15 March 2027.

Magha in the North, Pausha in the Amanta Calendars

North Indian calendars open a month the day after a full moon. The full moon before this Amavasya is Paush Purnima, at 17:47 on 22 January 2027, so this dark fortnight begins their Magha and the new moon stands in its middle: Magha Amavasya, kept as Mauni Amavasya. Calendars that close the month at a new moon count it differently. Their Pausha begins at the new moon of 8 January 2027, takes in Paush Purnima and Sakat Chauth, and ends here, so for them this is Paush Amavasya, and their Magha starts with the Pratipada on the 7th.

The dark-fortnight rows differ by one month and the bright-fortnight row agrees, which is the whole of the rule. The next dark fortnight shows it again: Maha Shivratri is Magha krishna 14 in the amanta tables the site’s festival data uses, and Phalguna krishna 14 in the north.

Shattila Ekadashi Before, Vasant Panchami After

The Krishna Ekadashi of this fortnight holds the New Delhi sunrise of Tuesday 2 February 2027, 4 days before the Amavasya; it is Shattila Ekadashi, and the Shattila Ekadashi 2027 page sets out the fast and its parana. On the bright side of the new moon, Vasant Panchami follows on Thursday 11 February 2027, 5 days later, the fifth day of a Magha that both systems now agree on.

Quick Reference

• Amavasya at sunrise (New Delhi): Saturday, 6 February 2027, sunrise 07:06, sunset 18:04
• Tithi: 19:05 on 5 February (computed) to the new moon at 21:26 on 6 February (DE421)
• Names: Mauni (Magha) Amavasya (purnimanta); Paush Amavasya (amanta); Shanishchari Amavasya (Saturday)
• New moon position: Capricorn, Dhanishta; the Sun in Capricorn
• Around it: Shattila Ekadashi 2 February; Vasant Panchami 11 February

The rest of the year’s new moons are on the Amavasya 2027 list. Check the sunrise tithi where you live with the panchang calculator, and find the season’s other dates in the 2027 festival calendar and on the festival pages. In Hindi: मौनी अमावस्या 2027 कब है.